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The importance of spell check cannot be overstated. Weather you are preparing your resume, an email, a presentation, or another form of business communication you cannot skip this step. It should go without saying but it is often overlooked. ALWAY, ALWAYS, ALWAYS hit spell check.

I was once preparing a job-search email, hit spell check and realized I had misspelled the recipient’s name. Had I not caught the error, my job-search query would have been over before it even began. In my career I have seen countless resumes and cover letters with typos. Those are the ones that do not make it to the top of the stack. A major and consistent complaint from job applicants is that they never hear back from employers after applying for a position. Many candidates would do well to go back and double and triple check there documentation. Their “hit” rate might increase if they do.

Once you have gone through the spell-check suggestions be sure to re-read your whole document slowly to ensure you have used the correct words (or have not omitted a word). You many have spelled “there” correctly so it will not flag as an error. But do you need to use “their” instead? Or “whether” instead of “weather”? Spell check won’t let you know that’s wrong.

Did you notice when you spotted the errors in this post how it distracted you from the message? That’s what those types of errors do…take away from the message you are trying to convey.